Baijng-glaivip



( Model.)

KIGER.

BALING CLAMP.

No. 891,622. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

WITNESSES:

9% m. By

ALFRED KIGER, OF DARETOVVN, NEW

nrnnr tries.

JERSEY, ASSIGNOB OF ON E-HALF TO THEODORE C. AVIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BALlNG -CLAMP.

BPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,622, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed March 19, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED KIGER, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Daretown, in the county of Salem, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Baling-Olamps, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which-- Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of a baling-clamp embodying my invention. Fig. 3 represents a section thereof in line 00 0c, Fig.1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

My invention consists of a baling-clamp formed of a stock, a pulley, and clamp, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the stock of the clamp, having an eye, B, for attachment of one end of the baling-rope.

0 represents a bent arm, and D represents a bifurcated arm, both of which project laterally from the stock A, at the side opposite to the eye B. In practice the stock, eye, and arms are cast in one piece of metal.

Between the limbs of the arm 0 is a pulley, E, whose axis F is secured to said limbs, and one of said limbs is shorter than the other, so as to leave a throat, G, between the stock A and the short limb, whereby the rope may be introduced between the limbs of the arm 0 and placed on the periphery of the pulley E.

The operation is as follows: The rope as attached to the eye B is passed around the article to be bundled or baled, and then located on the pulley E and drawn tightly in the direction of the arrow. WVhen the proper compression is obtained, the rope is drawn into the bifurcated arm I), the bight of which holds the rope and prevents slipping and release of the same,whereby the bundle or bale is prevented from becoming undone, it being noticed that the opening of the bifurcated arm is tapering or V-shaped, whereby the back strain on the rope causes it to tighten against the walls of said opening. In order to release the clamp the rope is drawn out wardly or in the direction of the arrow,whereby it is disengaged from the walls of the bifur- Serial No. 231,541. (No model.)

cation and then slackcns, after which it may be slipped from the pulley E through the throat G.

It will be seen that the clamp is of strong, durable, and inexpensive construction, and may be easily and quickly operated in both tightening and loosening actions.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a device of the character named having a pulley and a bifurcated arm for bighting the rope; neither is it new to make a clamp of a piece of metal or other suitable material having an eye on one end thereof, to which one end of the cord or band is fastened, and having at its other end a crotch, one of the forks of which extends inward on the outer side of the body 6 5 of the clamp, so as to form a hook around which the cord is passed, relieving the strain of the cord; but I am not aware that it is old to form the same as herein shown and described,wherein a bent arm in which the pul- 7o ley is journaled is open at its inner end,thereby forming a throat for the insertion of the rope, and thus permitting the same to be braced against the portion of the pulley near the stock of the device; neither am I aware that it is common to form the same with a recessed arm extending from the stock laterally and substantially parallel with the pulley arm; neither, so far as I am aware, is it common to locate the said bifurcated arm in relation to the pulley, so that the rope, when drawn on the pulley by the pressure of the material in the shock, will be forced or drawn. farther into the recess, so that it will be held firmly in place, the same being accomplished by forming the inner wall of the \l-shaped recess farther from the stock than the periphery of the pulley.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 0 Patent, is-

1. A device of the character named consisting of a stock having an arm with pulley thereon, and a second arm parallel to the first provided with a \lshaped recess, the walls of 5 which are farther from the stock than the pe riphery of the pulley, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A device of the character named conthe rope in the direction of the pulley will sisting of the stock A,With eye B, the bent arm cause the bighting of the same in said recess,

0, having the throat G at inner end thereof the substantially as described.

pulley E, jonrnaled in bent arm 0, and the arm ALFRED KIGER. D, having a \/-shaped recess therein, with its WVitnesses:

inner wall farther from the stock than the pe JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

riphery 0f the pulley,whereby the drawing of .TAs. F. KELLY. 

